IBM Tivoli NetView for zOS 6.1 Fundamentals, Automation, REXX, PIPEs

IBM Tivoli NetView for z/OS offers an extensive set of tools for managing and maintaining complex, multivendor, multiplatform networks and systems from a single point of control. The NetView for z/OS curriculum consists of four courses. You can tailor their training by taking one or more of the following courses:

• NetView for z/OS 6.1 Fundamentals (TZ203), where you learn the key concepts, components, and user interfaces associated with NetView for z/OS 6.1
• NetView for z/OS 6.1 Automation (TZ213), which covers the automation facilities of IBM Tivoli NetView for z/OS
• NetView for z/OS 6.1 REXX (TZ223), where you learn how to write REXX EXECs using NetView for z/OS
• NetView for z/OS 6.1 PIPEs (TZ233), where you learn how to code NetView PIPEs within REXX EXECs to simplify operations and perform automation by using NetView for z/OS

This course combines the content from all four of these courses, thus providing comprehensive training for Tivoli NetView for z/OS version 6.1. It covers basic concepts, components, user interfaces, automation facilities, REXX, and PIPEs. Instructor-led discussions are reinforced with practical, hands-on lab exercises.

This intermediate-level course is for Administrators who are new to NetView for z/OS Administrators who are moving to version 6.1 from a previous version.

You must be familiar with:

• networking concepts and practices and the techniques for monitoring a complex environment.

Familiarity with previous versions of NetView is helpful, but not required.

• Describe the NetView key components and tasks
• Describe key functions
• Navigate these user interfaces: 3270 and TEP
• Use NetView commands
• Explain these user interfaces: NMC and web application
• Customize by using CNMSTYLE, style sheets, and reporting
• Explain basic IP management functions and System z networking
• Identify the data that is integrated from OMEGAMON XE products
• Identify event types that can be processed and the way that they arrive in NetView for z/OS
• Identify what actions are possible and where they can be routed
• Describe the functions provided by the message processing facility (MPF), the message revision table (MRT), and the command revision table (CRT)
• Implement Automation Table statements to automate messages
• Structure the Automation Table
• Manage the Automation Table
• Describe how to improve the efficiency of an Automation Table
• Use NetView timers to proactively monitor resources
• Describe the basics of REXX EXECs in NetView
• Write NetView REXX EXECS
• Issue commands
• Trap and parse messages
• Set and retrieve global variables
• Perform automation
• Describe the basics of NetView for z/OS PIPEs
• Write code for NetView PIPEs with REXX EXECS

NetView for z/OS Fundamentals

• NetView for z/OS overview
• NetView packaging and installation
• NetView structure and components
• The 3270 interface
• Customizing NetView using CNMSTYLE
• NetView administration
• IP management
• NetView Web Services Gateway
• NetView Management Console (NMC) interface
• NetView Enterprise Management Agent
• Tivoli Enterprise Portal
• NetView product integration with IBM Tivoli OMEGAMON XE products
• Tivoli Enterprise Portal security

NetView automation

• Message Automation topics
• NetView commands to facilitate automation
• Managing the NetView Automation Table
• NetView Automation Table coding

REXX

• Introduction to REXX
• Miscellaneous topics
• Variables
• Process Message in REXX
• Problem analysis
• Additional topics

PIPEs

• Overview of NetView pipelines
• PIPE stages
• Access files With PIPEs
• Pipelines and variables
• Manipulate text in a pipeline
• Process pipeline data
• Advanced topics